I just posted a message about spamd not keeping up. I'm asking this question separately to keep the answers distinct.
my spamd hasn't been keeping up and so I turned on rbl checking ahead of spamassassin. that reduced the load but it also seems to be catching more spam than spamassassin was on its own. should I need to rbl check ahead of spamd or should I just edit local.cf to rbl check there? if I do move the checking to spamd, is there a file somewhere that sets which rbl's are used? my other computer can check the senders address against the black lists but I understand that spamd can also check url's found in the body of messages which would be helpful. if local.cf sets rbl to 0, does that turn off both kinds of checks or are the body checks controlled elsewhere? can all this be adjusted in the cf files or do I need to tweak rules? if the later, are the rules documented anywhere or is it all in you expert's heads? I'd think that it would be inefficient to check the lists twice. shouldn't I get the best throughput by having spamd check both the sender and any url's in the body against the lists I find most reliable? Frank M. Cook
